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Item Details
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| Author: |
Delano, A[lonzo] |
| Title: |
Life on the Plains and among the Diggings; Being the Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California: with particular Incidents of the Route, Mistakes and Sufferings of the Emigrants, the Indian Tribes, the Present and the Future of the Great West |
| Place: |
Auburn & Buffalo |
| Publisher: |
Miller, Orton & Mulligan |
| Date: |
1854 |
| Item # : |
165989 |
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| Sale Number |
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319 |
| Lot Number |
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252 |
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| The Library of Ford Mitchell: Early Americana, Texas & the West |
| Sale Date |
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10/20/2005 |
| Price realized |
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$ 373 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| 384 pp. Illustrated with 4 wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. 7¼x5, original blindstamped tan-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. |
| "Alonzo Delano... crossed the Missouri River at Saint Joseph in mid-April of 1849 and entered California by way of Lassen's Cutoff, arriving on the Feather River on September 9. He became a well-known and prosperous banker in Grass Valley, where he finally made his home..." - Wagner-Camp. Kurutz notes that in addition to being "one of the great classics of the Overland Trail, Delano also wrote in detail about his adventures in the mines and the general conditions of newly arrived emigrants, miners, and Indians. During these first years in California, he spent much time in Sacramento, the mines of the Yuba River (making $600 in only two weeks), Marysville, the Gold Lake country, Nelson's Creek, and finally San Francisco." Cowan p.163; Graff 1042; Howes D230; Kurutz 177a; Mattes 423; Mintz 121; Rocq 6041; Sabin 19348; Streeter 3176; Wagner-Camp 238:1; Wheat Books 57. Bookplate of Irving W. Robbins, Jr., laid in and penciled signature of Sadis F. Russell. |
| Condition: |
| Fading to spine and edges, ends frayed, rubbing, shelf wear; hinges tender, offsetting to endpapers, front flyleaf a bit loose, other mild wear; about very good. |
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